Hmmm ... I think you may have pointed out a technical difficulty in my
mind. I thought the KAT500 divided the bands up into fixed segments and
I "trained" mine at what I thought was the center of each segment ...
every 10 KHz on 160, 20 KHz on 80, 50 KHz on 40/30, 100 KHz on
20/17/15/10, and I don't remember on 6. If I'm reading your explanation
right, I should have done it based on the bandwidth of my antennas
instead? That would be a lot faster, my method took an afternoon since
I have more than one antenna for most bands.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
On 3/1/2014 10:07 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote:
2) I don't use Mode AUTO mode. To "train" the tuner (initial setting), I put
the tuner in mode MAN, then perform step 1) above in several places on each
band. On bands where my antennas are "sharp" (160 and 80), I do this on
every 10 kHz (for 160 meters) and every 20 kHz (80 meters). On 40 I tune in
about five spots, on 20 meters I tune at the bottom, middle, and top of the
CW and phone segments. The tuner finds the nearest memory to your current
frequency. If I didn't tune in enough spaces, I sometimes perform step 1)
later when I find a spot that I should have trained in the initial step.
It's important to clear memories on a band where you make significant
antenna changes, because all the old settings can be used if you don't
retune in every memory segment.
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